Quiz for Human Resource Management

Sponsor is the main decision maker in major changes on the project. [1 - 9 Human Resources]

Risk management plan is nor an input to Acquire Project Team process. [1 - 9.2.1 Acquire Project Team]

All choices are right. [1 - 9 Human Resources]

All choices are right.

Some of the project team members can be assigned to selected project management responsibilities; is that case they are considered part of the Project Management Team. [1 - 9 Human Resources]

Develop project team is the process to improving the competencies, team interaction, and the overall environment to enhance project performance. [1 - 9 Human Resources]

The team member should provide functional manager with information about his/her workload to clarify if additional load is possible. [1 - 9 Human Resources]

Acquire project team is the process to confirming human resources availability and obtaining the team necessary to complete project assignments. [1 - 9 Human Resources]

All choices are right. [1 - 9.4.2 Manage Project Team: Tools and Techniques]

It is Sponsor's role to provide project with required funding. [1 - 9 Human Resources]

All choices are right. [1 - 9.3.2 Develop Project Team: Tools and Techniques]

All choices are right. [1 - 9 Human Resources]

Manage project team is the process to tracking team member performance, providing feedback, resolving issues, and managing changes to optimize project performance. [1 - 9 Human Resources]

All choices are right. [1 - 9.1.3 Develop Project Team: Outputs]

Project manager should coordinate the network diagram and critical path with the team, and setup priorities among activities on the project. [1 - 9 Human Resources]

Crating a project charter is responsibility of sponsor and stakeholders, unless it was specifically assign to the project manager. [1 - 9 Human Resources]

All choices are right.

Project manager does not have to be an expert in technical area, but being and expert in project management is the duty. [1 - 9 Human Resources, and 1 Project Management Framework]

Staffing Management Plan is the part of Project Resource Management Plan. It describes when and how human requirements will met. This document is updating constantly due to acquisition of resources and team development actions. [1 - 9.1.3 Develop Human Resources Plan: Output]

The hierarchical charts help to identify the relations between departments and team members. RACI (responsible, accountable, consult, and inform) is one of the examples of RAM charts. [1 - 9.1.2 Human Resources: Tools and Techniques]

The project manager should control project schedule and responsible for schedule divination. [1 - 9 Human Resources]

Project Resource Management plan is the only output of the Develop Project Resource Management Plan process. Activity resource requirements is an input, and award and recognition system is a part of the Project Resource Management Plan. [1 - 9.1.1 Develop Human Resources Management Plan: Input]

All choices are right. [1 - 9 Human Resources]

Administrative and behavioral types of Human Resources are used on the projects. [1 - 9 Human Resources]

The enterprise environmental factors related to human resources are related to the cultural environment and structural interactions between the resources, organizations will be involved in the project, and availability of training. It also important to recognize if there any hidden agendas or anyone is negatively influences the project. Personal administration policies will help to interact with resources managers and functional managers to influence the project resources performance. The information about marketplace condition may help to identify possible lose. For example, there is a risk of losing a high-demand skilled personnel for more competitive compensation on the market. [1 - 9.1.1 Develop Human Resources Management Plan]

All choices are right. [1 - 9 Human Resources, and 1 Project Management Framework]

All choices are right. [1 - 9.2 Human Resources: Tools and Techniques]

All choices are right. [1 - 9 Human Resources, and 1 Project Management Framework]

Project manager needs to deal with this situation (close the gap, etc.). [1 - 9 Human Resources]

Disagreed people should find a solution for their personal disagreement without involving of others. [1 - 9 Human Resources]

Roles and Responsibilities chapter - provides the name of the roles, and describes their authority, responsibilities, boundaries, and required competency of skills. Project Organization Chart - - helps to identify the relations between departments and team members, and some key roles. Staffing Management Plan - describes when and how human requirements will met. [1 - 9.1.3 Develop Human Resources Plan: Output]

Only the sponsor can make such significant change in the project charter, where the target date is provided. [1 - 9 Human Resources]

Project staff assignments, project management plan, and resources calendars. [1 - 9.3.1 Develop Project Team: Inputs]

A project team is a team whose members usually belong to different groups, functions and are assigned to activities for the same project. A team can be divided into sub-teams according to need. Usually project teams are only used for a defined period of time. They are disbanded after the project is deemed complete. Due to the nature of the specific formation and disbandment, project teams are usually in organizations. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_team [1 - 9 Human Resources]

Forming - putting together a team; storming - solving disagreements within the team; norming - reaching working relations; performing - reaching highest level of working efficiency; adjourning - releasing resources from the project as the work is completed. [1 - 9.3.2 Develop Project Team: Tools and Techniques]

All choices are right.

A project team members may belong to different groups, functions, but are assigned to activities for the same project. A team can be divided into sub-teams according to need. Usually project teams are only used for a defined period of time. They are disbanded after the project is deemed complete. Due to the nature of the specific formation and disbandment, project teams are usually in organizations. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_team [1 - 9 Human Resources]

Develop human resource plan is the process to identifying and documenting project roles, responsibilities, and required skills, reporting relationship, and creating a staffing management plan. [1 - 9 Human Resources]

All choices are right. Manage Project Team process belong to executing process group and addresses the team day-to-day activities. [1 - 9.4.3 Manage Project Team: Outputs]

Project charter may contain conceptual information about human resources and would not be needed in Develop Project Resources Plan process. Other choices are only inputs into this process.

Develop Human Resource Plan is a planning process; the rest of Human Resource Management processes belong to Executing process group. [1 - 9 Human Resources]

Sponsor provides funding to the project, and assists management team in clarifying project scope, monitoring project progress, and influencing others for the benefits of the project. There is a saying "sponsor is the best friend of the project manager". [1 - 9 Human Resources]

All choices are right. This question means what tools and techniques are used in this process. [1 - 9.2.2 Acquire Project Team: Tools and Techniques]

Project sponsor assigns project manager with appropriate authority via project charter. [1 - 9 Human Resources]

All choices are right. [1 - 9.4.2 Manage Project Team: Tools and Techniques]

Functional manager owns the resources, provides control their control, and is responsible for their performance. [1 - 9 Human Resources]

Sponsor advocates the project, and protects from such big changes. [1 - 9 Human Resources]

Human resources plan is an output if Develop Human Resource Plan - other choices are right. [1 - 9.2.3 Acquire Project Team: Outputs]

Configuration management system is used to keep the right version of the documents available. Other choices will be used in the process as input. [1 - 9.1 Develop Human Resources Management Plan]

Managing the interdependent projects is the role pf Program Manager. [1 - 9 Human Resources, and 1 Project Management Framework]

The project management team is responsible Management and Leadership activities including initiating, planning, executing, monitoring, controlling, and closing the project phases and whole project. Other choices belong to the team members that assigned to particular roles and activities. [1 - 9 Human Resources]

Project manager and stakeholders determine role of stakeholders on the project. [1 - 9 Human Resources]

All choices are right. [1 - 9 Human Resources, and 1 Project Management Framework]

A project team is a team whose members usually belong to different groups, functions and are assigned to activities for the same project. A team can be divided into sub-teams according to need. Usually project teams are only used for a defined period of time. They are disbanded after the project is deemed complete. Due to the nature of the specific formation and disbandment, project teams are usually in organizations. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_team [1 - 9 Human Resources]

All choices are right.

Perhaps, the project charter has time constrain; changes in project charter require involvement of the Sponsor. [1 - 9 Human Resources]

All choices are right. [1 - 9.4.2 Manage Project Team: Tools and Techniques]

In this case some additional work was added to the project, which was not supported with neither project budget nor management reserve - Sponsor's involvement is required.

Sponsor and functional manager are responsible to provide appropriate resources to the project. [1 - 9 Human Resources]

Team performance assessments, and enterprise factors update are outputs of Develop Project Team process. [1 - 9.3.3 Develop Project Team: Outputs]

Sponsor or program manager, depends on organizational structure is responsible to determine priorities between projects in the company's portfolio or in program. [1 - 9 Human Resources]

All choices are correct. [1 - 9.4.1 Manage Project Team: Inputs]

All choices are right. Gathering a project team outside of day-to-day activities helps to create healthy relations and increase work performance. [1 - 9.3.2 Develop Project Team: Tools and Techniques]

Early involvement of the team in project planning increases their expertize, and commitments to the project. [1 - 9 Human Resources]

All choices are right. [1 - 9 Human Resources, and 1 Project Management Framework]

Sponsor describes project manager's authority in project charter, and assigns a project manager during project initiation. [1 - 9 Human Resources]

Human Resource Management is a project management area of knowledge that helps to organize, manage, and lead project team. [1 - 9 Human Resources]

It is responsibility of resource managers and functional manager to provide resources to the project. [1 - 9 Human Resources]

A team member is free to use more advanced method if it is coordinated with the project manager and team, meets project scope requirements, quality, cost and time constrains settled by project manager. [1 - 9 Human Resources]

Project manager is responsible to assign resources and ensure they know what and when they have to do. [1 - 9 Human Resources]

During closing a project or phase, sponsor is accepting project deliverables and supporting historical records. Sponsor can provide input to Lessons Learned, but this shout be done by stakeholders. The actual testing is usually part of executing phase, but belongs to monitoring and controlling process group, and done against the requirements, not project charter. Final performance report should be generated by the project manager, not sponsor. [1 - 9 Human Resources]